Setting Aside the Zither, I Stand Looking at the Chilly Moon; Breaking Up a Lotus to Patch up My Cold Sleeves; Opening the Mirror, I See My Declining Face (A set of two)
2003
Oil on canvas
100 x 80 cm (each)
Signed lower right Cheng Tsai-tung in Chinese and dated 03 (both) Inscribed lower right Setting Aside the Zither, I Stand Looking at the Chilly Moon, (left); Breaking Up a Lotus to Patch up My Cold Sleeves; Opening the Mirror, I See My Declining Face (right) in Chinese
NOTE: The poem is inspired from the poem of Professing Sickness, I Return to My Garden: Informing My Relatives and Associates written by the poet named Xie Tiao dated to the Southern Qi.
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